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FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“
DATE: DECEMBER 2, 2023
 
INFANTS KEEP COMING — BABY # 29 JOINED US THIS WEEK
 
Sad­ly, the moth­er of 6‑week-old infant Marceli­na passed away from post­par­tum com­pli­ca­tions 5 weeks after the lit­tle girl’s birth. The elder­ly Granny (moth­er of the deceased) tried to care for Marceli­na, but at the manda­to­ry check in at our baby weigh-in on Thurs­day our staff found the bot­tle unwashed and caked in old for­mu­la. By a mir­a­cle, the infant didn’t have diar­rhea. The elder­ly Granny just couldn’t han­dle a bot­tle-fed infant. With 4 orphaned sis­ters and broth­ers from the deceased moth­er now liv­ing with the elder­ly Granny, Social Ser­vices agreed to place the 6‑week-old infant in our care. 

The father aban­doned the moth­er and the 4 chil­dren short­ly before the birth of Marceli­na, flee­ing this State to avoid prob­lems. Pray for these chil­dren, as the elder­ly Granny and the orphaned 10-year-old girl are the only females in this fam­i­ly who can care for her broth­ers. The remain­ing fam­i­ly is all male and very young, as the 2 uncles in the fam­i­ly are just teenagers them­selves. What mat­ters is that this beau­ti­ful lit­tle girl is now safe with us, PTL! 
 

Sweet­ie # 29, Marceli­na, 6‑weeks-old nev­er had clothes until we received her on Thurs­day
 
TODDLER HOUSE GETS 20-YEAR-TOILET
 
Dig­ging a “20-year-toi­let” or “long drop” as the South Africans call it, is a big job! The sep­tic hole had to be 3 meters wide, 4 meters long, and 3 meters deep! (10 feet wide, 13 feet long, and 10 feet deep). 
 

Dig­ging the pit for the 20-year-toi­lets
 
That is a HUGE DEEP HOLE that took 5 days for 8 men to dig. We were in a hur­ry, so when 1 team of men got tired, the 2nd team took over, so the work nev­er stopped. Haul­ing off the dirt took anoth­er team of men plus one of our trucks. BUT WE DID IT IN RECORD TIME TO BEAT THE RAINS!
 
After the hole was dug, the pit was divid­ed in six sec­tions and then the tops were put on each sec­tion.
 

The big pit that makes the foun­da­tion of our new bath­room at tod­dler house
 
 

Putting the tops on each of the 6 pits
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JESUS HOLDS OFF THE RAINS FOR THE ROOFING WORK TO BEGIN.
 
On Wednes­day, I had no plans to try and put in the 6 con­crete “pil­lars” that would secure the bath­room roof to the ground because a large amount of rain was due the next day. BUT GOD HAD OTHER IDEAS!  I awoke in the wee hours of Wednes­day night with a def­i­nite mes­sage from the Lord. He showed me I must put in the con­crete pil­lars the next morn­ing, and HE would hold off the rains. Sure enough HE did, as the rain clouds formed over our heads at 6 a.m., but a strong wind high up in the cloud lev­el moved them away from us at hur­ri­cane speed! Every­one saw the fast mov­ing clouds and mar­veled at what was going on. It was not some­thing we have ever seen before in our area. The day remained dry until 3pm, giv­ing the con­crete good dry­ing time. The rains start­ed slow­ly with­out the huge thun­der­storm that was pre­dict­ed. PTL for that! The car­pen­ters are now busy with the roof­ing beams that will start going up on Mon­day if the rains hold off. 
 

Bath­room as of this week with 6 posts to hold the roof
 
Our con­struc­tion work for the next 4 months is main­ly deter­mined by those mas­sive rain clouds that dear­ly love Bala­ma. There are days we receive 2 inch­es or 50 mm of rain in 12 hours!
 
MANY BLESSINGS TO YOU ALL FOR HELPING US WITH THIS LIFE-SAVING PROGRAM.
 
It is esti­mat­ed that our food and orphan pro­grams over the last 23 years have saved more than 20,000 chil­dren. The Lord is smil­ing because those 20,000 lit­tle spir­its have a great future thanks to all of you.
 
BUSH BUNNY BRENDA LANGE
AND THE BALAMA STAFF